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JOURNAL OF LEARNING DISABILITIES
Volume 34, Issue 6, Pages 520-533Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/002221940103400605
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD25806] Funding Source: Medline
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The present study examined whether indicators of math learning disability are observed in 5- and 6-year-olds with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and in 5- to 6-year-old girls with Turner syndrome or fragile X syndrome. Data from 14 girls with Turner syndrome, 9 girls with fragile X syndrome, and 11 children with NF1 were compared to data from control participants matched on age, sex, IQ score, and grade level. The results indicate that girls with fragile X syndrome or Turner syndrome are significantly more likely to have specific math difficulties relative to their control group, with a larger effect size demonstrated by the group with Turner syndrome. Young children with NF1 had a heterogeneous profile not suggestive of specific math disability. The results an, discussed in terms of their implications for understanding math disability subtypes and the identification of math difficulty in the early school years.
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